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From: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] build: create relative symlinks for PMDs in
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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 19:39:10 +0200
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On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 18:21:34 +0100
Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> wrote:

> Add -r option to ln, otherwise the link will be absolute and contain
> the build path and break packaging among other things:
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 bluca bluca     99 Sep 11 22:17
> librte_mempool_dpaa.so.1.1
> -> /home/bluca/git/dpdk/testt4//usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dpdk/
> drivers/librte_mempool_dpaa.so.1.1
> 
> With -r:
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 bluca bluca     35 Sep 12 18:13 librte_pmd_zlib.so.1.1
>   -> dpdk/drivers/librte_pmd_zlib.so.1.1  
> 
> Fixes: ed4d43d73e2b ("build: symlink drivers to library directory")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>

Tested on Fedora 28 by building dpdk using meson from a spec file

Tested-by: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli@redhat.com>